Water Quotes

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

I'm trying to drink more water.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.